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I have beeing testing the creation and configuration of an specific account for OpenID in one of the profiles supported by sourceforge.net authentication list:

• AOL http://openid.aol.com/screenname
• Livejournal http://username.livejournal.com/
• Blogger http://blogname.blogspot.com/
• Yahoo https://me.yahoo.com/username

Having already some of this profiles ready to use, i decided to set up my identity via Google, as far as I am already using some of thir products quite often.

So at this point you can either log in Sourceforge with your personal account or register a new user based on a OpenID provider.

Suposing the second one, the registration sends a message to Blogger to ask for confirmation of the confidence on authentication with Sourceforge. Regarding registration forms, they may share information based on specific formats, I will try to take a look into this one day.

So once accepted, you can link your sourceforge.org id with the OpenID url provided, ir order to use that url (in this case ltilve.blogspot.com) to log in, never mind the user_id you could register.

I gess that this algorith is based on something similar to SSO behaviour, prepared to filter ‘man-in-the-middle‘ vulnerabilities, but I will review this to have more information

• http://openid.net/what/
• http://alexandria.wiki.sourceforge.net/OpenID

Some times it is necessary to take a breath.

The concept 2.0 is expanding too fast and some times it is mandatory to stop from your tasks to have an overall perception of how technologies are evolving. Perhaps the forest sometimes doesn’t allow you to see the trees. Let’s have a look on how to face an approach to the integration of these aplications on the desktop.
Borrowing some ideas from Chema proposal:

• Get a definition: What is online desktop for us?
• Which is the relationship with Online Desktop?
• Crazy ideas: What do you think that could your desktop do to improve your Internet experience?
• Study the state of art of the project. What is mugshot?

Starting from the last point, we have started testing Mugshot Stacker in an Ubuntu 7.04.

# alien mugshot-1.1.45-1.fc8.i386.rpm

Warning: Skipping conversion of scripts in package mugshot: postinst postrm preinst prerm
Warning: Use the –scripts parameter to include the scripts.
mugshot_1.1.45-2_i386.deb generated

# dpkg -i mugshot_1.1.45-2_i386.deb

# mugshot
mugshot: error while loading shared libraries: libcurl.so.4: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

So it is necessary to install libcurl4, and i will have to upgrade my distribution. Keep going…

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Finally, it wasn’t neccesary. Reviewing the ubuntu backports and debian repositories mentioned in the mugshot wiki , I reached this repository where I could download and install the Debian package to start playing whith the Mugshot stacker widget.

The ethimological origin:

“Nor again is there anyone who loves or pursues or desires to obtain pain of itself, because it is pain, but because occasionally circumstances occur in which toil and pain can procure him some great pleasure. To take a trivial example, which of us ever undertakes laborious physical exercise, except to obtain some advantage from it? But who has any right to find fault with a man who chooses to enjoy a pleasure that has no annoying consequences, or one who avoids a pain that produces no resultant pleasure?” Cicero.